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`EUROPA, EUROPA," the hit movie about German Jews and Nazis, just won a Golden Globe as best foreign-language film. But the German-language film has largely been spurned in Germany.
Critics panned it; audiences got little chance to see it, and the German Film Export Council did not nominate it - or any other movie - for an Oscar as best foreign film.
The director blames German bias, although the full explanation may be as complicated as the dealings that went into making the multinational film. The movie has German and French financing, a Polish-born director, a cast featuring many Germans and a screenwriter who now disavows it.
In the United States, "Europa, Europa" has grossed about $3 million, a respectable showing for a subtitled film. Besides the Golden Globe from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, it was named best foreign film by the New York and Boston film critics and the National Board of Review.
The film is based on the story of Salomon Perel, a Jew who...